Easter Celebration

What an awesome day yesterday, celebrating Christ's resurrection, all the hope and joy that day has brought to our lives!

This year, as a family, we participated in some of the Holy Week traditions as we anticipated Easter. Each evening we read the stories of Christ's final days and moments before his death on the cross. 

We participated in the Passover with our good friends Kyle and Lahela. Thank you guys for leading us through such a neat meal and remembrance of God's deliverance for his people.

 Friday Sophi and I made a mountain out of clay, and fashioned three crosses on top. We also made a small tomb and found a stone to cover the entrance. 

We made Jesus out of pipe cleaner and reenacted the story of his death on the cross and burial in the tomb, rolling our stone over the entrance to seal Jesus inside.

Sunday morning Sophi woke up to find the stone rolled away from the tomb and Jesus alive! 

 At breakfast we read the story of God bringing Jesus back to life. We went to church to celebrate with our CA community and came home to find an Easter basket full of goodies for Sophi.

 We had a yummy meal of baked zitit (thanks Rachel for the recipe).

  We had lamb cake for dessert to remind us of Jesus as the Lamb of God who took away our sins. This was Josh and I's first attempt Saturday night at making lamb cupcakes...not so great! 

Fortunately we put our heads together and came up with this...

 much better!!

 We then, of course, had to have an Easter Egg hunt!

Sophi couldn't wait to get to the candy inside each egg and was beside herself as she checked out her stash afterward!

 It was so neat to watch Sophi come to learn the story of Christ's death and resurrection over the course of the week. She still tells us that "Jesus is Alive!" We had so much fun making some neat family traditions and reliving the greatest miracle of all time!